Temporary bans for posters continually posting CV stuff on non CV boards

Yep I'm reporting any in chat or Aibu
I'm not using active threads. Just looking at boards

Sure, prefacing the threads with CV isn't a bad idea for those who insist on living their lives with their fingers in their ears, but banning people?

I think there are too many on here at the moment who won’t be happy until we are all as hysterical and neurotic as they are. 🙄

@crapette thank you

@mogloveseggs A very basic google search "mumsnet hide topics threads" will find loads of threads where people are asking the same question. Here are some of the more recent ones:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3839483-How-do-I-hide-the-Coronavirus-topic-from-my-active-convs

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3850284-how-to-hide-all-cv-threads?msgid=94775031

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3848445-Hiding-Coronavirus-threads

So nobody is banned yet then?

Did Mnhq do what you wanted?

Slightly off topic but how do you hide the whole Coronavirus board please? I'm really struggling with it all

I don't see asking to keep all the CV threads in one place as sweeping it under the carpet at all. I avoided the Brexit ones as well. If I wanted a one-topic forum I'd find one.

Having them all in one place doesn't stop anybody who wants to from discussing it.

That's the point. People aren't on that topic.
Aibu to be upset over cv....

Who said people need to be silenced?

There’s a whole topic for it, although I do think that should all be amalgamated into one thread and the hysteria needs to go.

And why have mnhq not responded to this thread? Thought that was the whole idea of putting threads in site stuff?

It’s surely only a matter of time before the CV hysteria threads start appearing in the DM. MMM maybe that’s the answer. If people feel they’re going to be quoted in the press talking about how it’s interesting that the areas worst affected are the areas with 5G (yes, that was a post) or that the elderly are clogging up the hospital beds so should be locked down, or saying that given the elderly voted for BJ coronavirus is what they deserve, or describing in graphic detail how you die if you die, maybe they’ll think twice.

Do none of you know how to hide topics and threads?

It has nothing to do with posts being triggering. It has to do with the fact that people’s hysteria is taking over the whole of mn, and believe it or not, there is more out there than coronavirus.

Suspect that once this dies down there will be people who find they don’t have anything to talk about any more.

We need to find a balance, because while CV is scary and unprecedented, life does still go on. People will still have babies, watch television, have conversations with other people, fall out with their MIL’s and friends, perhaps even meet new men over the internet during their periods of isolation for what turns out to be just a cold in some.

Some of the people on that topic need serious help.

Nobody is saying people should be silenced, there's a lovely big topic for it. Fill your boots

I don't have to read each thread but the fact that active thread lists is pretty much full was what made me put Mumsnet down earlier.

Many posters on MN are not in the UK and bring able to talk about what they are going through continues to be a lifeline for them. Particularly those in lockdown situations.

To demand that those posters are silenced is repugnant.

You might want, rather than bleating to HQ about how it's hysteria and you don't like it, read some of the testimonies. And remember that thanks to the UK govt's inaction, that's going to be Britain in ten days time.

Forearmed is forewarned.

I'm really surprised how much all the cv posts have upset me today. This is only the second time I've been on here today (normally addicted..)
I've updated myself via the news but the almost hysteria feeling has been way too much. In fairness many Facebook friends and groups have been dumped today too.

should do tbh. I have hidden the whole CV topic as it is messing up my mental health

What rubbish. Practically every thread is about the C virus anyway and even if it doesn't start off that way, the subject will come up. So what? Nobody has to read the threads.

What is panicking about dying going to achieve, exactly? Some people are so hysterical about dying that they’re no longer living.

Exactly, every other post on here is about CV, if it's helpful and informative then that's great, but they're not. They're scare mongering and panic inducing.

I think lots of issues are potentially triggering for different people sadly. Placing harsher rules in place for CV than for references to e.g. rape, miscarriage, death etc etc would seem odd.

There are plenty of areas in which coronavirus interacts with other topics (as you yourself have found, posting this in site stuff OP...).

Wow. Confined to house arrest for 2 weeks with a sick child. Cinemas closed, gyms, ice rinks, swimming pools, theatres, schools, pubs etc shut. Shops with empty shelves and old people left with no food. Mortgages not being paid as staff are laid off, huge money worries, economy about to crash and burn. Aeroplanes grounded, stock exchange in free fall, people sick and dying, confused and frightened.

A pandemic of worldwide proportions and we're not supposed to talk about it anywhere else but one talk topic?

This involves so many topics. Health, financial, legal, pregnancy, children politics etc.

By all means put CV linked so people can choose to avoid, but don't sweep it under the carpet.

To hide the CV topic from your active list - see the word talk at the top of the screen, click the down arrow, then customise - scroll to the bottom of the page and the last option enables you to hide topics from the active screen. Unfortunately, you can still see them in the trending box but it's easier to avoid!

I’ve noticed quite reasonable threads going on for a page or two then overwhelmed with a pile on of ‘ you are selfish ‘ ‘you are stupid’ ’ links to all kinds of questionable sources, diversion into political comments that aren’t actually allied to the thread, in a very aggressive manner , normally seen on Reddit, from new posters.

It feels like there are people patrolling the boards for the prime purpose of whipping up hysteria.

And hiding the CV thread ( which I have ) is not much use when this kind of hijacking occurs.